the shed.

to start i realized that the brakes will be a bit more complicated than i had thought, so added a comment re this on the previous post.

back to business.

well about 8 this evening after work etc, i donned the thermals, multipule shirts, fleece jacket, heavy beanie plus mechanics gloves and faced... the shed...  in winter...

to be honest it isn't really winter yet. it can't be, as i was nice and warm.

total work on the type 3 brakes, 0 minutes. mainly as i can't find my easyouts (insert expletives here).

i figured that that meant it was time to have a go at what i have been avoiding for a while...  cleaning the shed.

there have been probably 3 or 4 times in the 3 1/2 years that i have owned this house that my shed has been something resembling clean and organised. there has always been the corner next to the door ( corner = 1 by 1 1/2 m ) that has had various "house" crap in it. when we moved in my wife asked if she could store some boxes of stuff in my shed, i grudgingly agreed, on the promise that they would be there for 3 weeks maximum. she has talked a few times about sorting them out and getting rid of the junk, but the only time they have been touched iswhen i have had a go at it. i think there are boxes there that have not been touched since before we met, aka 8+ years ago. i won't started on that tangent/rant.

the size of the "corner" has grown and shrunk (i did sort, condense and chuck some of it after my shed was flooded in a torrential downpoor about 2 years ago.) more stuff comes out to fill the gaps a month or 2 after each clean, but it has always been there. aka my shed has never been truely organised.

one of the times was one school holidays when a friend who was minding the cat decided to tidy the shed up for me. he knew that it would be good for me, i needed a hand to get moving and i would appreciate it. yes he is a really good friend. thanks Hans. that was probably the cleanest the shed ever got, as he organised all of the big stuff so there was room to move and when i gat back and saw it, i tidied the bench and re organised heaps of boxes of stuff. all in all it was really really nice for a few weeks. then i decided to start on the rebuild of the 1776 out of my ragtop. 

i got it completely stripped, all while wearing white overalls i might add, it was a new experience to do things with particular care about being neat and clean. i will stick to that style i think, then i broke the dogs leg... (don't worry it was by accident, but i won't go into that one now). $2400 later the dog was back on 4 legs and i had no chance of rebuilding the engine any time soon. as an asside $2400 was almost exactly what i had priced the parts and machine work for my engine to be.

that was well over a year ago and the engine in it's little bags still covers half the bench as a reminder to think before you act (and i'm not really sure where to put everything)( hmmm i just had an idea about where)

i really wonder if anyone else reads this as it is really total drivel.

to cut a long rambling story off before it gets any longer, the shed is still a pigsty with 2 exploded engines (the other came from the free type 3) covering the bench and a chunk of the available floor plus heaps more house crap than normal, but i have started to re assert my dominance over it.

the bit that surprised me was the amount of stuff i have been tinkering with over the last year. basically nothing totally finished but a fair bit of it cleaned up and to a state when it can now be stored safely awaiting the time i need it and therefore will throw the nessecary $ at it for replacement consumable parts or work that i'm not capable of doing myself.

time to go back to the shed and spray some more wd40 in these brake drums.

btw 2 hours of sorting stuff out and the easyouts didn't turn up, i think that is bacause i broke one last time i used them so took them with me to find a replacement. obviously i never put them back in the shed. nfi where i did put them though.

edit 2, i should also add that yesterday i got more $ in and stuff posted off to people, most of that round in and out. almost time to advertise some more stuff. plus i got back to a local guy with a hazet assistant copy so i should pick that up next week. he's still umming and ahhing re selling his front wheelnut spanners. we'll see what happens.

also in the neverending quest for the right car/the right bits for my ragtop, i asked a random stranger at work if they knew of any vw's in there neck of the woods and much to my surprise she replied that she had 3 on her property she wanted to get rid of. now i just need to wait for her to sent through some pics to work out if they are worth going to have a closer look at. always ask.